Report on Delegate Meeting III, July 24th 1956 
The President declared the meeting open and asked if there were any objec 
tions or additions to the Agenda given below. 
1. Agenda for the meeting. 
2. Further discussion on Motion No. 10/1956 (Captain Reading’s motion on 
the Archives etc.). 
3. General outline for the next congress (General Brown). 
4. Distribution of Technical Commissions. 
5. Other Questions. 
The proposed Agenda was adopted. 
Item 2. No. 10/1956. 
General Brown proposed, with the support of Captain Reading, that points 
a and c of the motion should be considered in connection with the revision of 
the statutes. Dr. Fagerholm proposed that point b be adopted as a recom 
mendation and not as a binding decision. Professor Schermerhorn proposed that 
the special Congress Number of Photogrammetria be printed in 1 000 copies 
and comprise 600—800 pages and supposed that the price would not exceed 
5—8 U.S. dollars. The special number would have a paper size corresponding 
to that of the Archive and be reckoned as part of the Archive in the same way 
as the Stockholm Congress Part 4 containing the off-prints. This number should 
according to Schermerhorn be distributed four months before the Congress so 
that all the participants would have good time for preparation. Dr. Fagerholm 
agreed in principle with Professor Schermerhorn but considered that the question 
could be decided by the new Council. It was further pointed out that there 
were many good national journals that were certainly interested in collecting 
important articles from their own country in a congress number. Captain Reading 
accepted the idea that a recommendation was sufficient but considered that 
some form of subscription in good time before the congress was necessary to 
safeguard the finances. 
Professor Schermerhorn stated that in the proposed Congress Number of 
Photogrammetria to be included in the Archive he only intended that »invited 
papers» would be published. In national journals it would be suitable to publish 
the national reports and lectures that were not »invited papers». Under these 
circumstances he assumed that the number of pages would be less than 600. 
Dr. Fagerholm considered that if Professor Schermerhorn’s proposal could be 
carried out it would give great advantages. With regard to subscriptions, which 
should be paid about five months before the Congress if the Congress Number 
were to be distributed four months before, he informed the delegates that — in 
spite of previous preliminary registration and dead-line — only 200 of 700 
participants had registered. The subscription should be incorporated in the 
Congress fee and thus be made compulsory. Moreover the dead-line for sub 
mission of manuscripts for the Congress Number must be observed very strictly, 
although this would certainly involve a loss of many valuable contributions. 
Dr. Harry stated that the question had both a material and an administrative 
aspect. The statutes committee should devote attention to these matters when 
dealing with the by-laws. The commissions should be allowed a certain amount 
of latitude and should preferably be informed during 1957 of the detailed rules 
that the new Administration finds suitable to prescribe. 
Professor Hallert referred to a speech made on the previous day by General 
Brown in the presence of the Council and the Commission Boards (see the 
appendix to the closing meeting of the General Assembly, p. 82) and considered 
that the principles outlined there also covered the question under discussion.